Maximum travel benefits for you and your business, plus 250,000 bonus Amex Membership Rewards Premium Ascent points...
Learn more and apply for this card:
https://www.australianfrequentflyer.com.au/credit-cards/american-express-platinum-business-guide/
What are the main benefits of this card...
I haven't seen thread about this card yet. It's the new version of the previously fee-free Amex Velocity Escape card.
https://www.americanexpress.com/en-au/credit-cards/velocity-escape-plus-card/
This card now has a $95 annual fee, but earns a higher rate of 1 Velocity point per $1 (up to...
There's an new offer available until 20 January 2025 on the Citi Premier card for 110,000 bonus Velocity Points:
https://www.australianfrequentflyer.com.au/credit-cards/citi-premier-card-velocity-guide/
You can earn 110,000 Velocity Points by spending $8,000 within 3 months of approval and...
This seems to be a new business card that American Express only introduced a few months ago:
https://www.americanexpress.com/en-au/credit-cards/business-gold-plus-card/
There's a $395 annual fee. You get 2 free employee cards and earn 1.5 Amex points per $1 on everyday spend. ATO spend earns 1...
The Citi Rewards credit card has a limited-time offer on it for 100,000 bonus Flybuys points. That's worth $500 at Coles or 50,000 Velocity points (I would be taking the latter!). You need to spend $5,000 within 3 months of approval.
The annual fee on this card is $199...
Virgin Money has an interesting offer on its Velocity High Flyer credit card. Earn up to 80,000 bonus Velocity points + 100 VA status credits. You need to spend at least $3,500 each month for the first two months to get the bonus points. This offer expires on 31 January 2025.
The High Flyer...
The Bankwest Qantas Platinum card (which I have) has had a 50K Qantas points sign-up bonus running for the past 3 years or so. Finally, the World card has an offer too of 100K Qantas points.
This offer requires a bit of commitment though. You would need to spend $35,000 (not a typo!) within the...
Westpac Altitude and the Amplify Rewards program of St.George, Bank of Melbourne & Bank SA recently added Everyday Rewards as a transfer partner.
You can convert credit card points from Altitude and Amplify to Everyday Rewards at a rate of 3,000 to 2,000.
This is particularly interesting...
Velocity Frequent Flyer has traditionally given a bonus each May and November to encourage members to transfer points across from a credit card program.
Like clockwork, a new offer has just gone live:
https://www.velocityfrequentflyer.com/partners-offers/transfer-bonus
You need to make at...
Does anyone have a credit card that earns Virgin Money Rewards points?
Virgin Money offers a couple of Velocity co-branded credit cards, which I imagine are the most appealing options for most AFF members, but I noticed that they also have an Anytime Rewards card that earns Virgin Money Points...
HSBC Star Alliance cardholders can transfer their Star Alliance Rewards points to KrisFlyer by 31 October 2024 to get 25% bonus KrisFlyer miles.
I think this is the first bonus we've seen from this rewards program?
Details on the Singapore Airlines website...
Just received an email with the Amex Elevate Premium moving from $195 to $295.
I don't renew until March 2025, but interested in any feedback on "points for cancel" with the call centre.
Positive
The credits they offer from certain suppliers
Able to transfer to multiple airline and hotel...
This new sign-up offer commenced last month - was previously 100,000 Qantas points, now 150,000.
You need to spend $7,500 on the card within 2 months of approval to get the bonus points.
https://www1.citibank.com.au/credit-cards/citi-prestige-qantas
Here are the offer T&Cs from the Citibank...
Hello AFF,
I received what may be a targeted offer to sign up to the Amex QBR card with no annual fee. This is because I already have the Qantas Amex Ultimate Card.
The trade off here is, there is no annual fee every year but no sign up bonus either. Unfortunately I would rather the annual...
I've got few months until my QF anniversary and I don't want points to post before that point. If you've had some recently, how long did it take? I have of course read the ts&cs, which say min spend in sixty days, points posted 'within three months' of meeting that. Cheers.
While Macquarie stopped issuing Qantas earning products back in July 2022 (Earning Qantas Points on your home loan), existing card holders have been exempt from the removal... until now.
Unfortunately Macquarie have finally announced they'll be ending Qantas point earning cards and home loans...
Is this a new benefit of the Virgin Money Velocity High Flyer credit card? I haven't seen it before.
Looks like you now get 20% bonus status credits on VA flights paid for using the card, capped at 100 per year.
Here are the T&Cs...
In 2020, CommBank introduced a new credit card with a monthly fee instead of the traditional annual fee. This has now started to become a bit of a trend with Westpac, NAB and American Express now starting to introduce monthly fees as well...